What a FUN, CRAZY day!

At school the day before Halloween is ALWAYS fun and exciting!! The day is full of lots of sugar, and parties. I haven't been able to volunteer in the kids classes much this year so far, due to training for 1/2 marathon and a 3 year old at home. So I decided to spend the whole day at the school with the kids! I started out by going to an assembly for Callie, then went to have lunch with each kid and then to each kids class party!! It's crazy how when I'm at home the time they are at school goes by way too fast, and when I'm at the school, it seems like the school day is so long. It is so fun to see my kids enjoy school!! It was especially fun to have lunch with McKenzie (my Kindergartner) she just seems so big opening her chips all by herself and holding little conversations with her friends. I think I enjoyed the day more than my kids did!!

She must take after her mom!!

I am so proud of Callie!! She was recognized in an assembly for HIGH Honor Roll! Callie takes her school work VERY seriously...the minute she walks in the door from school she goes straight to the table and does her homework. She stresses when she can't figure things out and is bound and determined to do things without help from mom. Well, all the hard work and stress is paying off, she is getting straight A's!! We couldn't be any prouder of her!!

When I say she must take after her mom...I am completely lying!! She already stumps me with her math and English homework, poor girl has to figure it out on her own most of the time. I wish I took school and little more serious and not just chased the boys..I'm paying for it.

Way to go Callie!!

Wow, three new posts!!

Callie as "Goldie"

The third grade had a book report project where they had to pick a book, read it, do a report about it, dress up as the main character, and decorate a pumpkin as the main character. Callie chose the book "Goldie".

Callie really stresses about projects like this...so I asked her teacher at parent/teacher conference how fancy her costume needs to be. I was told to print some dog ears off the computer and pin a tail on. Well when Callie told my mom about the project and told her what I was going to do for the costume, grandma thought that was not ok. So this is what she did....

A little extreme for a book report project, but Callie LOVED it!! I must say for buying the fabric and dropping it off the day before the project was due, grandma is AMAZING!! What would I do without her? Poor Callie would of had to go to school wearing paper ears. :)

I was dying to know if Callie was the only one decked out for the project, so I snuck in and spied. I have to admit I would have felt bad if I sent her to school with paper ears, cause there were some pretty creative costumes.

Thank you Grandma! We can't tell you enough how much we appreciate all you do for us!

Kid of Character!

I got a message from Cody's teacher to call her on her cell phone, my first thought was "dang kid, what did you do?" I just met with his teacher a few days before for parent/teacher conference and she told me how Cody is such a good kid and a good example to those in his class. I was hoping she wasn't changing her mind about all that. I was happy/relieved when she told me that Cody was going to be recognized at an assembly for "Kid of Character!" She said to keep it a surprise for Cody and invited me to come watch him get recognized. I have to say when he saw me walk in, I think he thought he was in trouble by the look on his face. (he was a trouble maker in Kindergarten, so I am always telling him that he better be good cause I will come and spy on him) I am so proud of the choices Cody is making this year!! He has chosen better friends and everything about him is different this year. I couldn't be any prouder. Keep it up Cody!

Callie the pitcher!

Callie is really enjoying softball and she improves with every practice and game. I really hope that softball ends up being the sport she decides to stick with, I love everything about the sport!! She has been having fun learning to pitch. This video is of her first game and only learning to pitch a ball two days prior. I must say for a beginner she is doing pretty good. I love to watch her play and make new friends.

Life is CrAzY....

Our life is a little chaotic right now....I have a few things I need to post about to catch up, but I'm tired right now. With me, Callie and Cody all playing baseball and softball we are always at the ball fields. Callie had her first game on Saturday and she was able to pitch one inning and she did AWESOME!!! I will post a video later.

We had a fun Fall Break!! We were lucky to have dad home too!!

Miss Makayla

Makayla is such a crack up lately...yesterday at Cody's baseball practice she walking up and down the sidewalk. (I should say strutting) Callie and I were sitting in our lawn chairs watching Cody and as Makayla passed us she would stop, put one hand on her hip, and the other hand next to her chin while waving it and say, "Hi, boys." (in a very grown up voice) I looked at Callie and asked her "did you just hear that?" and we both started cracking up!! Makayla then proceeds to strut her stuff and stop and look in the direction of the boys playing ball and say, "hi boys!" .......I'm in trouble!